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On Nov 26, 6:25 am, George M. Middius cmndr _ george @ comcast .
net wrote:
Ludo said:

Music is something intended to be listeed to undistracted just as
books, not to mention poetry, are written to be read attentively and
paintings looked at without loudspeakers playing an accompaniment. in
the background.

Uh-huh....

This of course will classify me as a snob because my preferences are
not those of the self proclaimed non-snobs.

Actually, it qualifies you as a fossil because your habits are ossified.

The definition of a non-snob? He prefers pop to
Beethoven's last quartets.

You're conflating artistic merit with emotional involvement. Great
classical music has the former, but all music that one enjoys engenders
the latter. If your "preference" only leads you to one kind of music no
matter what your state of mind, then "snob" is not the right term to
describe you
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Middius says:
If your "preference" only leads you to one kind of music no
matter what your state of mind, then "snob" is not the right term to
describe you
Thank you for remaining urbane. In self-defence I'll say that most
rock is preferable to most pop that preceded it. But I confess that
there are very few rock records I can listen to ( I mean LISTEN) for
longer than 20 minutes. But there are a few.
As for catholic (i.e. broad) taste how many of the pop listeners go to
chamber music concerts?
I don't follow your distinction between "artistic merit" and
"emotional involvement". Surely they are indistiguishable for any
single listener.
Ludovic Mirabel.